Quotes About Inclusion

The people who have a strong sense of love and belonging, BELIEVE they are worthy of love and belonging.

When we hear people referred to as animals or aliens, we should immediately wonder, "Is this an attempt to reduce someone's humanity so we can get away with hurting them or denying them basic human rights?

We're going to need to intentionally be with people who are different than us. We're going to have to sign up, join, and take a seat at the table. We're going to have to learn how to listen, have hard conversations, look for joy, share pain, and be more curious than defensive, all while seeking moments of togetherness.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved,

Once we belong thoroughly to ourselves and believe thoroughly in ourselves, true belonging is ours.

It's not an accidental entanglement; it's an intentional knot. Love belongs with belonging.

True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

We all need to be seen and honored in the same way that we all need to breathe.

My job is to help my children believe in and belong to themselves.

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be in order to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

On page 145, I defined belonging as the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the same thing. In fact, fitting in is one of the greatest barriers to belonging. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be in order to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

connection and inclusion versus busyness and exhaustion.

We have to belong to ourselves as much as we need to belong to others. Any belonging that asks us to betray ourselves is not true belonging.

The after-school specials of my youth seemed to be dedicated to exploring just these ideas. They brought us the mean boy who really just wanted to be included and the know-it-all girl who was showing off at school to hide her misery over her parents' recent divorce.

The Latin paradoxum means "seemingly absurd but really true." True belonging is not something that you negotiate externally, it's what you carry in your heart. It's finding the sacredness in being a part of something and in braving the wilderness alone.

Worthy now. Not if. Not when. We are worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

help us create a culture of belonging at work.

We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When

I haven't been in a company in five years where people aren't whispering, "This is great, but, um, how do we talk about race?

Every single one of us is someone else's other.

Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Have we created a space in our families where our kids know that they belong. Where there are no prerequisites for worthiness, you don't have to hustle here for me to believe you're worthy of loving. You don't have to perform here for me to think that you belong here. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to get a certain grade on your test. You don't have to hit so many home-runs. You belong here.

True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.

True belonging is not something that you negotiate externally, it's what you carry in your heart.